Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 13-46. 13-14
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | The title-page quotes Le Sage
, in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)... |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | Bristol Public Library
's copy of AY
's Poems, on Several Occasions, first edition, incorporates a dozen manuscript poems, including To The King
: On His Majesty's arrival at Cheltenham 1788. Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 13-46. 13-14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | QV
's father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent
, was a son of domestic and high-minded parents, George III
and Queen Charlotte
, but since their day the House of Hanover had become renowned for... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life. Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable. 246 |
Residence | Frances Trollope | She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne
's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region... |
Residence | Sarah Trimmer | |
Textual Features | Eleanor Tatlock | Among ET
's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical... |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | This collection contained writing in many genres, including dialogues, pastorals, allegories, and imitations of Henry Macpherson
's fashionable Ossian. One of the essays paints a rosy picture of the necessity of working for bread... |
Dedications | Mary Stockdale | She published it as Miss S., through her father
's firm, and dedicated it to the king
. She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other... |
Textual Production | Robert Southey | RS
, in his capacity as Poet Laureate, published a poetic tribute to George III
(who had died in January 1820), entitled A Vision of Judgement. Wu, Duncan, editor. Romanticism: An Anthology. Blackwell. 560 |
politics | Susan Smythies | The ending of her last novel sounds as if she subscribed to the ideas put forward by Lord Bolingbroke
about the leadership potentially offered by a patriot king. Such ideas were re-surfacing with the prospect... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | In her travels through the forests and around the lakes of the colony, EPS
kept vivid diary records, and supplemented her words with sketches. From these sketches she later worked up watercolours of landscape, drawings... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | The series of watercolours by EPS
which her husband presented to George III
are now in the British Library
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
published his second book of poetry, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
. Being poems found amongst the papers of that noted female who attempted the life of the King
in 1786. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 21 (1810): 448 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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